Word: mediterraneans
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...Rowan W. Dorin ’07, another Hoopes winner, said he viewed his thesis more as a process than as a product and that he valued the relationship he cultivated with his adviser while conducting research on medieval Mediterranean trade...
...couple hundred journalists milled this morning at Carlton Beach, an outdoor restaurant with a pier that juts into the Mediterranean. They looked across the Croisette, the wide oceanside strip that is the Cannes Film Festival's own chic boulevard, and up to the top of the seven-story Carlton Hotel, a white building with wedding-cake ornamentation. There, in a bulbous bee costume, stood Jerry Seinfeld, being attached to a guy wire by several burly technicians. He was about to "fly" about a hundred yards onto the pier, risking life and reputation to promote his animated film Bee Movie. "Anything...
...professional movie-lovers - directors, actors, producers, publicists and that lowest form of film careerists, critics - Cannes is a benign and abiding addiction. Each May we come to this Riviera resort as pilgrims to the shrine of cinema. Heroically shunning the piercing blues of the Mediterranean skies, we see four or five dozen films from two or three dozen countries. At the start of each screening, we hope for epiphanies; at the closing credits, usually, we shuffle out hoping the next film will be better. But quality is not mandatory here. Each movie, good or bad, is another volume...
...done, especially in the south of the country. "Child mortality rate remains high in rural Upper Egypt," says UNICEF's El Sanadi. Egypt's goal now is to move from the list of developing countries and measure itself with the South European nations along the opposite shore of the Mediterranean...
Founded in 2005, easyCruise made an immediate splash with supercheap cruises of the Caribbean. Since then, the line's bright orange ships have expanded to the Mediterranean and the canals of the Netherlands and Belgium. But this season, Hadji-Ioannou discontinued the Riviera route, redeploying one (so far) of his ships to ply the coasts of his home country, beginning May 18. "Greece is an ideal environment for this unique concept to work best," he says. "Its cluster of close-distance islands means more itineraries--and money for us--rather than sailing the Riviera coast." Like the pioneer...